The Johnstown Flood

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The Johnstown Flood occurred on Friday, May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River... . (Source)

Louis (Lewis) Savage

Louis, son of Frank and Julia (Snay) Savage (and cousin of Abram Snay, according to the museum display below):

YouTube Screen Shot (Display at the Clinton County, New York, Museum)

Lewis Savage's Memorial at FindAGrave

Pennsylvania Troops For Clark

Display At Fort Necessity In Pennsylvania

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A Young Earthquake

Sign At The New Madrid, Missouri, Museum

"...we learned...that my aunt Susanna was lying very dangerously ill of a fever, and word had been sent by them for some of us to go up and pay a visit, and bring back word whether she was living or dead. Accordingly it fell upon me to go, and after getting my horse shod, on the morning of the 16th of December, 1811, I started for old Fayette.

On crossing the river at Wellsburg I was asked if we had felt any shocks of an earthquake up Rush Run the night before, but I said that we had felt none. They said that they had felt several shocks in the night, and we afterwards learned that it was no wonder, as the seat of a young earthquake had its home on the Mississippi River bordering on the State of Tennessee, where considerable damage was done. [Source - The Sherrard family...]

Sign At The New Madrid, Missouri, Museum

Abram Snay, Oldest Surviving Lincoln's Avenger

Screenshot From YouTube (Clinton County, New York, Museum)

The site, Boothie Barn, has an entry entitled, Retracing the Steps of the 16th New York (Lincoln's Avengers).

Abram Snay is my 2nd great grand uncle.

Biography Of A Distinguished Man

Portrait In Marietta, Ohio, Museum

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Pirogues Of New York And Louisiana

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We saw a film about Louisiana pirogues at the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Museum.

Petitts In Grimsby

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From Déliberations Et Mémoires de la Société Royale Du Canada:

Jonathan and Deborah Pettit lived in the State of Pennsylvania. Part of their land was in New Jersey. There were two sons, Andrew and Nathaniel. *Andrew married Sarah Smith in 1780, and in 1787, with wife and four children, started for British territory.

His brother Nathaniel lived on a farm between Grimsby and Beamsville. He owned the land on which Grimsby now stands. Nathaniel Pettit owned lot No 9 in the first and lot No 9 in the second concession.


From the Grimsby Museum:

"This Indenture of Land  [see Indenture online] was made between *Andrew and Sarah Pettit and their son Jonathan A. Pettit on August 17, 1814.  Lot 14, Concession I & II, 160 acre lot."

John B. Pettit, son of Jonathan and grandson of Andrew:

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Captain Lewis In August

Portrait In Arch Museum Exhibit - St. Louis, Missouri

An August 12, 1805, entry regarding Captain Meriwether Lewis in the Chronological Tables...:

Kentucky's Pluck And Spirit

In Memoriam Sempiternam, By Confederate Memorial Literary Society, included the Kentucky Governor's Response to President Lincoln:

Mabel Ruth Bandy Anheuser

An article in The Southeast Missourian - Apr 5, 1926, indicated that Fred S. [Straub] Anheuser, a University of Missouri senior, introduced his "valentine," Mabel Ruth Bandy, to his friends, as the wife he married on Valentine's Day.  She was an instructor in the French Department at the university.  His father was a vice-president of Anheuser-Busch, Inc.  Both Fred and Mabel were 23 years old.

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Mabel's parents were John Rufus and Arminna (Boyer) Bandy.  Her grandparents were John Kennedy and Martha Ann (Cusick) Bandy.

The Anheuser estate is now a museum.

The ancestral home of Fred and Mabel Ruth Anheuser, affectionately known to many as Fredmar Farms, is located in Kimmswick, Missouri just 25 miles south of downtown St. Louis. 

Related post (she was my 5th cousin 2x removed through the Bandy line).

At The Hoover Library

Photo taken at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum

1917 Plat Map Of Winter Garden

Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM) is an online source for Florida's archival and museum information.  One online category housed by the University of Florida's George Smathers Library is the Sanborn Insurance plat maps.

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Present-Day Downtown Winter Garden, Florida

A Diagram Of Ford's Theater

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The scene on 14 April 1865

President Lincoln's theatre chair is on display at the Henry Ford Museum.

Recovered Steel - World Trade Center

Jim's Photo

On display at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas.

PA Holdings From The Burton Collection

Items listed at the PHMC (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission):

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Standard Of The Three County Troop

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In the 'New England Historical and Genealogical Register' for 1871 there is an interesting account of a local company of cavalry raised in 1659, just before the restoration of Charles II by the counties of Essex, Suffolk, Middlesex, Mass., and hence called 'The Three County Troop,' which, according to the records, continued in existence until 1677 and possibly longer. The annexed drawing of its standard, and bill of its cost, is from an entry in a herald painter's book of the time of Charles I., preserved in the British Museum.

Political Cartoons

“Cartooning is an irreverent form of expression, and one particularly suited to scoffing at the high and the mighty. If the prime role of a free press is to serve as critic of government, cartooning is often the cutting edge of that criticism.” [Source: Herblock at the Library of Congress]

The Dirksen Congressional Center had the following information on its website:

"Among the scores of cartoonists represented in the collection are Herblock, Gib Crockett, Hugo, Bill Mauldin*, Gene Basset, Pat Oliphant, Al Capp, Wayne Stayskal, Jim Berry, Guernsey LePelley, Tom Engelhardt, Paul Conrad, and Jim Berryman."


From the *Mauldin Collection at the 45th Infantry Division Museum in Oklahoma City:

Jim's Photo Of A Mauldin Cartoon

Stonewall Jackson In The Archives

Examples from the Thomas J. Jackson Collection at the Eleanor S. Brockenbrough Library:

A "Jackson Collection" document written before Thomas J. Jackson became the famous Stonewall Jackson:

T. J. Jackson to Gen. Gideon Pillow, November 11, 1847; autograph catalogue. Written in Mexico, this is a detailed note in which young Jackson respectfully disagrees with Pillow’s distribution of men, and asks for various reassignments.

Then during the Civil War era:

T. J. Jackson to Col. Thomas Jordan, August 16, 1861; l.s.  Letter regarding the flag of the 1st Michigan Regiment, captured at First Manassas by the 27th Virginia of Jackson’s brigade. Signed by Jackson.

See the link to the Thomas J. Jackson Collection for many more entries.

In addition, the Virginia Military Institute also has a link to Stonewall Jackson resources.

WWII Victory Museum

The end of WWII in Europe and in Asia.